Litanies Said Handedly by Ralph La Charity

a practitioner of call/caul poetics, a self-embodied variorum; a calling forth from within fused with a calling out of the surround, this transactional dynamic yielding a utility of rare gas bases for actualizing the Body Poetique; a Harm’s Way Yoga of public poet alchemizing …

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the least important thing about
a poem’s what it’s saying which
is why it doesn’t have to
say anything yes
it does have to mean but it
doesn’t have to mean
what it says

it’s important to get lost in a poem not
because you can get lost in a poem but
because lost is something that can
be gotten in a poem & it is

this begotten that’s the most
important thing, the one thing that
makes getting lost in saying nothing matter :

Makars commune with the dead & artists
who’ve brought back are who’ve
brought back from the Other side

Author

Ralph La Charity’s first book of poetry was MONKEY OPERA, published in 1979 as a joint effort by San Francisco’s Bench Press and Kent, Ohio’s Shelly’s Press. His most recent flat spine book prior to this one in hand was FAREWELLIA a la Aralee, published in 2014 by Dos Madres Press of Loveland, Ohio.

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